The icon software has all the necessary features that will satisfy an experienced designer: "Layers" design model, alpha-blending, a wide range of special effects, sophisticated transformations, etc.

No more switching between several applications! IconLover has all you need and shows it all in the same window using the popular tabbed interface. You can have an editor window in one tab and a browser window in another. It's easier than ever thanks to a superbly efficient interface. IconLover saves time. Browse icon libraries, import icons from various resources (executables, dynamic link libraries, image collections) by simply clicking tabs in the IconLover window. Icon-Lover supports drag-and-drop. Drag files right from your Windows Explorer windows.

Need to import multiple icons all at once? Want to convert multiple files into icons? Nothing could be easier. IconLover supports batch operations! You can accurately convert large collections with only a few mouse clicks. IconLover can work with a vast variety of formats. Convert to and from BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, base64 PNG, TIFF, WMF, WBMP, CUR and more. Now you can even work with Unix icons and cursor resources (XPM and XBM). And you can make icons from AI, PDF, SVG images!

IconLover is created by and for designers to make icons. IconLover is made with love!

Icon Design Pack 2010...
Get a dedicated icon editor and seven sets of icons in a quick-start package! Icon Design Pack bundles IconLover, a highly acclaimed icon and small graphics editor, with seven high-quality icon collections to offer designers and software developers an easy start. Icon Design Pack makes icon design easy and quick. Hundreds of icons in a variety of sizes and visual styles can be used as is or modified with the supplied icon editor.
IconLover, a perfectly easy icon editing software, is
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IconUtils 5.38...
Usability and functionality were our Polestar, while we were developing the new version of IconUtils. IconUtils is a complete workshop for icon crafting. The suite consists of several programs; each was designed to process icons in its special way: IconLover is an icon, cursor, image editor and manager; Any to Icon is a converter for converting graphic format files to icons; Icon to Any is a converter for converting icons to various formats of graphic files; AhaView is a handy picture viewer and
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W8 MS Icon Studio 2012...
W8 MS Icon Studio gives professional and amateur artists the ability to design and edit all the graphics required in the software development cycle, including icons, static and animated cursors, and other interface elements. All these graphics can now be designed using a single application. W8 MS Icon Studio is the ultimate icon design tool for Windows 8 for web developers and software developers who need an icon maker to enliven the interfaces of their projects, making them more user friendly
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